Cementos Portland stands firm on Lemona offer
Cementos Portland Valderrivas, the cement division of Spanish construction and services group FCC, has declared that it will stand firm on its takeover offer price for peer Ceme...
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Holcim Inaugurates first concrete plant at Cat Lai
Holcim Vietnam on December 9 inaugurated its new concrete plant in Cat Lai in southern Ho Chi Minh City’s District 2. The factory, capitalized at $3 million, covering 15,...
EPA requests info on dust disposal
Florida Rock Industries Inc disclosed Wednesday that it received a request for information from the US Environmental Protection Agency about whether its subsidiary illegally dis...
Cement industry complains about CO² certificates
The Austrian cement industry is threatening to shut down its kilns temporarily if the price of legally mandated CO² certificates goes up too much.
Semen Padang reports higher net profits
PT Semen Padang, a unit of PT Semen Gresik, Indonesia, set the target of net profit of IDR212bn, representing an increase of 56.15 per cent from the net profit target of this ye...
Taiwan Regulator fines cement cartel
Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission said Thursday it fined 21 local cement companies a total of NT$210m (US$6.3m) for price fixing between 2000 and 2003. Almost all of Taiwan&...
Lafarge announces further increases in cement capacity
The Paris-based global leader in cement is spending €125m in a new kiln and associated production facilities at its Russian subsidiary Voskresenskcement’s existing works, ...
Some good signs in Panamax and Handy sectors
Despite the fact that Cape rates fell last week, there is so far no sign of a global and harsh collapse of the market as Panamax and Handymax rates did not take the same directi...
Humidification at eco-friendly cement plant
Designs Unique, the Johannesburg-based company specialising in data acquisition projects, was recently commissioned to install a laboratory humidifying system at the Lafarge Bam...
Cement firm to triple capital
Saudi cement firm Yamamah plans to triple its paid up capital to SR1.35 billion (US$360m) and offer investors two free shares for each existing one, it said The announcement pus...
Dyckerhoff seeks acquisitions in Russia
Cement manufacturing firm Dyckerhoff AG is seeking acquisitions in Russia and neighbouring countries as part of the company’s strategy to reduce its dependence on the Germ...
Motivation vital for high performance
A South African based business analyst Justin Cohen says companies need to motivate their individuals if productivity is to improve. Cohen said yesterday during a training works...
Loma Negra signs for syndicated loan
Argentine cement company Loma Negra has signed a contract for a syndicated bank loan for a total of 295mn pesos (US$98.1m), the firm announced in a statement to the Buenos Aires...
Mykolaivtsement increases output
In November, the Mykolaivtsement company (Mykolaiv, Lviv region), increased cement production by 25.8 per cent or 12,500t compared with November 2004, to 61,000t.
Budindustria increases cement production
In November, the Bakhchysarai-based Budindustria factory, the largest cement producer in the Crimea, increased cement production by 3.3 per cent or 1300 tons compared with Novem...
Lafarge Malayan: share buy-back
Lafarge Malayan Cement Bhd reports it has bought back 1.2m shares at prices ranging from M$0.60 to 0.62 a share, for a total of M$741,085.27 (approx US$0.2M) on December 13. In
ACC buys Tarmac India
Associated Cement Companies Ltd. (ACC) said on Wednesday it had acquired 98.84 percent of Tarmac India Pvt Ltd. for 124 million rupees ($2.7m). Tarmac India is a subsidiary
Grenada looks to Cuban connections
Grenada is looking at the possibility of getting a shipment of cement from Cuba, to help deal with the shortage now being experienced in the country.
Garadagh Cement to Invest US$7m
In 2006, Garadagh Cement joint-stock company plans to invest US$7m in Azerbaijan, Uwe Koehler, the chairman of Management Board of Garadagh Cement, told local reporters. Koehler...
DEP approves use of plastics at Lafarge plant
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection approved an air quality plan for LaFarge North American Inc. Whitehall Township, to use certain non-recyclable plastics a...
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